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Mirowski contends that neoclassical economics have persistently presumed and advanced a misleading model of a self-sufficient social structure that transcends market operations in pursuit of absolute truth. He moves beyond grand abstractions in order to talk about the way science is lived and practi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mirowski, Philip, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Colección:Science and cultural theory.
Temas:
Research > Economic aspects.
Science and state.
Technology and state.
Politique scientifique et technique.
Recherche > Aspect économique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
Naturwissenschaften
Wirtschaftstheorie
Ökonometrie
Economische filosofie.
Recherche scientifique.
Aspect économique.
Économétrie.
État.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1 From Economics to Science Studies 1
  • Introduction: Cracks, Hidden Passageways, and False Bottoms: The Economics of Science and Social Studies of Economics 3
  • 1 Confessions of an Aging Enfant Terrible 37
  • Part 2 Science as an Economic Phenomenon 51
  • 2 On Playing the Economics Card in the Philosophy of Science: Why It Didn't Work for Michael Polanyi 53
  • 3 Economics, Science, and Knowledge: Polanyi versus Hayek 72
  • 4 What's Kuhn Got to Do with It? 85
  • 5 The Economic Consequences of Philip Kitcher 97
  • 6 Re-engineering Scientific Credit in the Era of the Globalized Information Economy 116
  • Part 3 Rigorous Quantitative Measurement as a Social Phenomenon 145
  • 7 Looking for Those Natural Numbers: Dimensionless Constants and the Idea of Natural Measurement 147
  • 8 A Visible Hand in the Marketplace of Ideas: Precision Measurement as Arbitrage 169
  • Part 4 Is Econometrics an Empirical Endeavor? 193
  • 9 Brewing, Betting, and Rationality in London, 1822-1844: What Econometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us about Historical Actors 195
  • 10 Why Econometricians Don't Replicate (Although They Do Reproduce) 213
  • 11 From Mandelbrot to Chaos in Economic Theory 229
  • 12 Mandelbrot's Economics after a Quarter-Century 251
  • Part 5 Episodes from the History of the "Laws of Supply and Demand" 271
  • 13 The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton: An Introduction and Justification 273
  • 14 Smooth Operator: How Marshall's Demand and Supply Curves Made Neoclassicism Safe for Public Consumption but Unfit for Science 335
  • 15 Problems in the Paternity of Econometrics: Henry Ludwell Moore 357
  • 16 Refusing the Gift 376.

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